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Baltimore Church Dedicating Youth Center To Freddie Gray
CBS Baltimore ^ | July 11, 2015 | Tracey Leong

Posted on 07/15/2015 9:49:02 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

Remembering Freddie Gray. There’s now a Baltimore youth center that honors the 25-year-old who died in police custody.

The Freddie Gray Youth Empowerment Center is located just 10 miles from where Gray lived, serving as a memorial and symbol of hope. It will ideally set Baltimore’s youth up for success in a city working to rebuild after being rocked by violence and chaos following the death of Freddie Gray.

“There’s another side of Baltimore that the uprising didn’t show,” said Dr. Jamal Bryant, Empowerment Temple Church pastor.

Bryant’s Empowerment Temple Church dedicated the center to the city’s kids, giving them a place to prosper and secure a brighter future.

“I really believe it’s got to be bigger than a new police chief—what is going to happen to the economic opportunities in our city and we hope this is going to be the epicenter for Sandtown Winchester,” Bryant said.

Amid one of the most deadly years in Baltimore, the city has already seen more than 100 deaths—a major spike compared to this time last year.

Community leaders and elected officials say now is the time to make a difference.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; crime; freddiegray
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You can't make this stuff up. To make this story more bizarre, the good reverend Dr. Jamal Bryant allegedly impregnated a 16-year-old in his congregation.

Be sure to read the comments after the story. Some are a real hoot, such as saying the creation of this center is like establishing the Michael Vick Animal Shelter.

1 posted on 07/15/2015 9:49:02 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

I wonder if they will deal crack and heroin out of the church?


2 posted on 07/15/2015 9:54:06 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Wow, what a wonderful role model!


3 posted on 07/15/2015 9:56:18 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I know. They couldn’t find a black scientist, police officer, or someone worthy of honor? No, they had to pick a drug-dealing thug. Very sad.


4 posted on 07/15/2015 9:57:56 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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Okay, let’s honor a criminal by naming a youth center after him while we relocate the remains of a Confederate general so as not to offend those who didn’t know who he was until a few weeks ago.


5 posted on 07/15/2015 10:09:43 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Pining_4_TX

Freddie Gray was a drug dealer and a criminal. I’m sure there will be plenty of drug dealers and criminals congregating there, so the name is appropriate.


6 posted on 07/15/2015 10:10:13 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Why not just dedicate it to Thug Culture?


7 posted on 07/15/2015 10:11:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“They couldn’t find a black scientist, police officer, or someone worthy of honor?”

How about the PRESIDENT??? Absolutely pathetic.....


8 posted on 07/15/2015 10:23:34 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Pining_4_TX

I went to the pastor’s website. Looks like a clown show. Their greater concern is political activism than saving people.


9 posted on 07/15/2015 10:30:10 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Pining_4_TX

Church webpage has his picture displayed, but nothing about the Gospel - what does that tell you?


10 posted on 07/15/2015 11:00:10 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: Pining_4_TX

“...what is going to happen to the economic opportunities in our city and we hope this is going to be the epicenter for Sandtown Winchester,” Bryant said.”

Gonna be a whole lotta jobs created by naming your youth center for Freddie Gray, a drug dealer.


11 posted on 07/15/2015 11:11:44 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Pining_4_TX

The yute center.

Over here we have “negotiating drug deals” classes

Over here we have the crack rock cooking area

Over there we have blunt rolling 101

Over there we have the Obama [pbuh] shrine

And right over here we have federal government job recruiters


12 posted on 07/16/2015 12:28:31 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Pining_4_TX

Memorialize the criminal but take down the Confederate flag.

Makes perfect liberal sense.


13 posted on 07/16/2015 2:54:59 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Right Brother

You need cases like this to show the absolute hopelessness of any kind of assimilation; the Klan couldn’t have marginalized blacks any better than they did themselves. Every foreigner washing up here passes them very quickly...


14 posted on 07/16/2015 2:58:25 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This guy Jamal makes the Pope look good by comparison


15 posted on 07/16/2015 3:00:12 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: kearnyirish2

Should have named it after the first African to invent the wheel.


16 posted on 07/16/2015 3:09:05 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Good riddance Freddy Gray! Your dead...tough luck...you got culled...now stay that way!


17 posted on 07/16/2015 3:13:41 AM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Black culture is a parody of itself. They can put the youth center in the same building as the ex-felon crime prevention group and save the cops an extra trip.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 3:29:42 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Nathan Bedford Forrest is way more worthy to have a youth center named for him. By the end of his life, you could definitely say he did more for black folks. (Some of us don’t consider selling drugs to be helpful.)


19 posted on 07/16/2015 4:19:06 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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The Freddie Gray Youth Violence Center — so blacks can organize to attack whites. The ‘church’ sounds like a cult...


20 posted on 07/16/2015 4:22:48 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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